Good day at the allotment

In fine weather it was ideal today to continue the preparations of the ground at the allotment.

Mainly this involved digging over areas which had been planted with green manure, and digging it in, and tidying up the raspberry canes and putting some chicken manure around them.

The area for the First Early Casablanca potatoes is all set, as is the area for the transplanting of the red onion sets which have been started off in the greenhouse and which have now grown good roots.

I'll get the onion sets planted by the end of the weekend and take a 'rain check' for the potatoes but think they also should be planted by the end of the coming week.

So far, so good regarding the newly planted fruit trees - we just need to keep them watered until they really get established.

Finally, I'll try to deter further weed growth in the upper half of the allotment by using some safe, but powerful, Glyphosate weed killer. If we can keep the weeds and nettles down this will really open up the top end of the allotment and we'll see the orchard to full advantage!